Tagged: water

The city of Baltimore voted overwhelmingly last week to ban the privatization of its water and sewerage systems, making it the first large U.S. city to prevent private water companies from taking over this...

Water used for washing hands usually goes down the drain. Now, an innovative system is helping reduce this wastage and prevent infectious diseases in developing countries by recycling handwashing water. Every year around four...

Environmental researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) have developed a novel mobile device for recording microplastics in surface waters. They call it the “Rocket”, a design with which depending...

Last week, the European Union, Canada, China, Denmark, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Korea and the US signed a historic international agreement banning unregulated commercial fishing in the Arctic high seas. Together, they represent...

The six trillion cigarettes produced every year gobble up finite resources, impacting the environment through climate change, water use and toxicity, a new study has warned. A single smoker depletes 1.4 million litres of...

Major multinationals such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and Volvo pledged to reduce marine plastic week when they signed the G7 Ocean Plastics Charter at a meeting of G7 environment ministers, businesses and NGOs in Halifax,...

Fishing, deep-sea mining and patenting the genes of marine life could soon be subject to new international regulations. John Dyer reports. Diplomats kicked off negotiations at the United Nations Intergovernmental Conference on Sustainable Use...

Dutch non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup has developed a massive floating barrier designed to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans. The system was launched over the weekend from the San Francisco Bay, where...

Disney is the latest American company to ban plastic straws, plastic stirrers and similar products at its theme parks to curb pollution. John Dyer reports from Boston. “Eliminating plastic straws and other plastic items...

Together with Recycled Island Foundation, the Audi Environmental Foundation has opened a floating park in the Rotterdam port of Rijnhaven. To create the park, the project partner filtered plastic waste out of the New...

Australian public water utility Melbourne Water is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to cut electricity costs in its water treatment plants. Efficiency is generally seen as a key marker of a smart city,...

As a team of international researchers investigate ice flow speed in northern Greenland, they are correcting models that predict sea level change. Ice is a material that can flow like a very viscous liquid....

Although more than 16 percent of all national waters are now protected, many ecoregions and countries are not included. The current reserve system is just as expensive as it is inefficient, as Dr. Kerstin...

The filter will first be used to recover aircraft de-icing chemicals. In the future it will also be used in urban areas to remove environmental toxins, pollution and probably microplastics, reports Håvard Egge from...

The Atlantic overturning – one of Earth’s most important heat transport systems, pumping warm water northwards and cold water southwards – is weaker today than any time before in more than 1000 years. Sea...

Excess CO2 in the atmosphere is making oceans more acidic. Some studies show that’s bad news for fish, including commercially important species. But not all fish respond the same way, as Nancy Bazilchuck reports...

Researchers at New Orb Media and State University of New York found microplastics in 11 leading brands of bottled water worldwide. A single litre of bottled water can contain thousands of plastic particles. Exclusive...

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Peter E. Merian used to be Director of the Basler Börse and CEO Bank Sarasin, Board Member of National Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten AG and founding member of the Global Environmental Society.

Lord Anthony St John of Bletso is a qualified solicitor and Member of Board, Rados International. Former Vice President of Business Development of OCRA, consultant to Merrill Lynch, director of WMRC plc and Pecaso Ltd. and Non-Executive Director of Regal Petroleum, Lord Anthony is currently an extra Lord-in-Waiting to HM The Queen. Since 1997 to the present he has sat on the Member of Lords EU Select Committee A. He is a spokesman on African affairs, deregulation, financial services and information technology. President of Friends of South Africaand used to be Iegal advisor for Shell in South Africa.

Dr. Betrand Piccard is wellknown for the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world. Doctor of psychiatry and psychotherapy, President of Solar Impulse, which aims to fly around the world in a solar driven aircraft without producing any polluting emissions, Bertrand hopes to draw the public’s attention to the inevitable changes needed to ensure our planet’s future energy resources and ecology and to give environmental protection a positive and stimulating image.

Dr. Marcelo Cavalho de Andrade is Doctor of Medicine and non-executive Chairman of Pró-Natura international, the first international environmental organization that manages sustainable development and conservation projects funded by international organizations, governments and the private sector in South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Marcelo has been appointed President of ECA –Earth Counsil Alliance a non-profit organization, created by Maurice Strong.